Lily King
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Daley, torn as a child between her liberal, socially committed mother and charismatic, alcoholic father, embarks on her own separate life as an adult, but when her dad hits rock bottom, she is lured back home with a dream of getting him sober and restoring their relationship, risking the possibility of a future with Jonathan.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Single mother Vida Avery, having earned a reputation as a strict, but brilliant English teacher at the private Maine academy where she has lived and worked for fifteen years, inexplicably agrees to marry a local widower with three children, and while her son Peter relishes the idea of a real home and family, Vida, never a fan of the real world, begins to self-destruct.
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